Moho Pro (Anime Studio Pro)

Moho Pro 12

Complete 2D Animation Software for Professionals

Moho Pro is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to traditional animation. With an intuitive interface and robust features such Smart Bones™, Smart Warp, Bezier handles optimized for animation, frame-by-frame tools, a professional Timeline, physics, motion tracking, motion graphs, 64-bit architecture and much more, Moho™ Pro 12 delivers advanced animation tools to speed up your workflow and combines cutting-edge features with powerful technology for the most unique animation program for digital artists.

New Feature for Moho Pro 12

Enhanced Freehand Drawing Tools

Freehand tools have been hugely improved, giving more accuracy and creating less points.

Bezier Handles

Get more design control with customizable vector Bezier handles. Create unique line bends with fewer points and optimized for animation

Smart Warp

Create custom meshes that can bend, shape, twist and animate assets. Works for both images and vectors and can be used with Smart Bones

Realistic Motion Blur

A new setting allows for true motion blur. Control the amount of frames and blend. Apply to any moving asset for instant results

Animate Multiple Layers at the Same Time

Get MORE done by editing multiple layers on the timeline in Moho™ 12. No more jumping back and forth between layers for complex tasks

Pin Bones

Add one point bones to alter, move and reshape assets in fun new ways. Combine with traditional bones for more complex animations. Works with both vectors and images

Updated GUI

Icons are bolder, the library and layers panels have been revamped and a new backend panel allows for easy color and brightness customization

Export/Import Actions

Share actions with other rigs! Export an action to use later or import it into another rig. As long as the rig has a similar structure, your action will work

And much more!

Moho™ offers the most powerful 2D rigging system and mix it with frame by frame, Particles, Physics and many other features. Get professional results for animation or games easier and faster

Feature

Revolutionary Smart Bones

Smart Bones is an incredible feature that reduces or entirely removes distortion around your character's joints - specifically around knees and elbows. Group a set of points and use the Smart Bones control levers to create 3D looking motion that you can easily repeat with the turn of a dial.

Bone Constraints

Several major enhancements have been made to Moho's bone features. The new bone constraints feature will include rigging options that will help set up characters that are more complex and powerful.

FBX Support for Unity, Game Developers

Unity game developers and users will now be able to use FBX support of animated 2D content in Moho Pro, eliminating the need to create rigid sprites for game development and providing the ability to get the exact look and feel that they want. FBX, the adaptable file format for 3D animation from Autodesk®, is the most common method for integrating animated 2D and 3D assets in Unity

Import Photoshop Files

Import your existing Photoshop files with all layers intact. Changes made in Photoshop instantly appear in the imported file in Anime Studio, allowing you to continually refine your Photoshop document. Many Photoshop features are supported in the imported PSD files, including blending modes, layer opacity, smart objects and smart filters. Groups are also supported and can be set up in Photoshop to automatically get imported into Moho Pro as switch layers for quick animating

Bounce, Elastic and Stagger Interpolation

applying the Bounce keyframe type to the timeline, any object interpolated will appear to bounce, all within two keyframes.

Elastic provides a rubber band effect, making objects spring back and forth before reaching their end point. Settings can be adjusted for each of these interpolation types to change the amount of times the object bounces, the intensity and more.

Stagger creates the effect that the animation is stuttering or staggering between two keyframes. No additional keyframes are created for this effect. This is great if you want to create the effect a character is having issue lifting a heavy object

Real Time Media Connection

The new Real Time Media Connection in Moho Pro automatically updates image, movie and audio files in your imported Anime Studio files when edited in an external program. This is a great workflow enhancement for individuals and production studios alike.

Separate Render Process

The Batch Exporter and Renderer are now performed as a separate process. Even if you quit from Anime Studio Pro, the render process continues until the job is completed

Preview Animation

You can now preview animations before committing to rendering. By going up to File > Preview Animation, a small video file will be created allowing you to view the animation, with no dropped frames, as it appears in workspace mode. While this method should not be used for final exports, you can take these files and save them elsewhere on your computer or even share them with others if needed. This can cut down tremendously on trial and error when animating and save lots of time, which is invaluable for creative projects

Depth Shifting

When moving an object forward and back in Z, Depth Shifting is an option to preserve its apparent size. Moho Pro does this by automatically applying the proper amount of scale. This can be used to arrange landscapes

Media foundation

The 64-bit Windows version of Moho Pro will now use Media Foundation. It is no longer necessary to install QuickTime to import popular audio and video formats like MP3, AAC, MP4, and QuickTime. When exporting animations on Windows 7 and higher, the application can create movies using the Windows Media Foundation media library

GPU Acceleration

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Acceleration takes advantage of your computer's hardware, boosting performance and quality for several layer types while allowing you to see exactly what the tool is doing as you apply a stroke or shape to the Workspace. The performance boost will help reduce pixelation and artifacting when working with certain graphical elements, such as Vector and Image layers.

Random Line Width Refined

In previous versions of Moho, random line width could prove to be a bit jarring from point to point.

Nested Layer Controls

Previously, bones could only control their direct children. Now, bones can control the children of their children. If you have a group inside a bone layer and then vector layers inside that group, the bone layer can manipulate the artwork in those vector layers if nested layer control is turned on. This allows for more powerful rigging options, while simultaneously simplifying and allow more organization in the layer hierarchy.

Flexi-Binding

Flexi-Binding allows you to isolate the influence of a set of bones from the rest of the skeleton. For example, only the right arm bones should affect the artwork for the right arm. This lessens (or eliminates) the need to separate artwork on frame zero, and then put it back together again with the Offset Bone tool. This is a great new feature for images and vectors.

Adjustable Particle Source

With Particle Layers, you can now use any shape, even ones that contain gaps, as an origin point for your particles.

Enhanced Depth of Field

ow when you create a Depth of Field effect through the Project Settings, you will get a visual representation of where your focus will be on the Workspace by using the Orbit Tool. This is a great addition if you have a hard time remembering what the settings for Depth of Field will do to change the effect.

Scripting

More scripting access and control. Moho Pro offers advanced scripting support and updates. More functions and data structures of the program have been exposed through the scripting API, allowing advanced technical users to create more personalized tools and add-ons.

Layer Comps

Export multiple layers individually with one click. Layer comps are useful if you want to export only selected items in your scene so that you can composite them externally in third party software.

Flexible Import and HD Export Capabilities

Anime Studio can import several kinds of other media files into an animation project. Import QuickTime®, AVI or MPEG-4 video or even 3D scenes from Poser. Image Based Modeling allows you to create 3D objects from 2D vector layers. And the included Content Library contains hundreds of ready to use characters, props and more.

Patch Layers

Patch Layers were designed for constructing characters and are similar to masks by allowing you to hide certain parts of a layer. Create each body part separately and then hide the overlapping lines. Adjust the size of the patch to perfectly blend the layers to get the desired style.

64-Bit Architecture

Moho Pro is a 64 bit application. Improvements in speed and memory will be noticed by all those who use 64 bit machines. Improve rendering speeds and preview performance.

Timeline Markers

Take notes and make comments on the timeline for future reference.

Shy Bones

Hide and see only the bones that you currently need.

Image Cropping Tool

Crop your images easily and directly in Anime Studio.

Copying Content

Easily copy layers and content from one document to another.

Copy and Paste Keyframes

Copy and paste keyframes and animations from one layer to another or even to another document.

*For high pixel density displays, minimum resolution will vary according to the operating system recommend scaling level. For example, if the OS recommends a scaling level of 200%, the minimum requirement may be as high as 2736x1824 resolution. Or if the OS recommends a scaling level of 150%, the minimum requirement may be as high as 2160x1440 resolution.